Monday, June 15, 2015

Ruyi & Lyn @ Bangsar Shopping Centre

Opening this month at BSC, Ruyi & Lyn is a rather unique & relatively bold restaurant, serving contemporary East Asian concoctions in a cavernous space hidden at the back of the mall's fourth floor, seemingly accessible by only one escalator.

Expect warm smiles to welcome you as you arrive; if you're dining in, you'll be ushered past a well-appointed lounge & into a main hall that's striking for its crimson catwalk, which leads up to Beyonce performing on mute on a larger-than-life backdrop.

But here's the dish that'll be Ruyi & Lyn's primary claim to fame, the platter that'll pop up on social media for months to come: A sushi compilation of nasi lemak, Hainanese chicken rice & sticky mango rice. Fun stuff - the rice is prepared like the real thing, so you get the full fragrance & flavour infused in each distinctive recipe - coconut milk nuances in the petite nasi lemak sushi, for example, crowned with anchovies, peanuts, sambal & tiny slices of egg. The Hainanese chicken rice sushi also does justice to the traditional favourite, topped with juicy steamed chicken & chilli sauce. RM43 for a serving of six assorted pieces.

Cocktails are available, though the liquids might not be as memorable as the solids here. Main courses reflect Ruyi & Lyn's links to The Oriental Group of Chinese restaurants, but the prices for the most alluring indulgences proved too steep for our budget - sablefish deep-fried with Moet champagne sauce costs RM148, while Wagyu beef & foie gras wok-fried with bell peppers is RM218 (though to be sure, there are plenty of prawn, scallop & rice mains that rest comfortably south of RM100).

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Contact.ewew: i was definitely thinking about that, and debating it with a few people. yeah, the cost of the food doesn't seem too high, but i guess the hidden costs are in the craftsmanship and maybe some wastage in material used to make the sushi (for example, they're only able to use specific parts of the chicken for the hainanese chicken rice sushi) ... but ya, my wallet would be more grateful if they'd charge RM30 per platter though :)

So sorry for not leaving as many comments as I would love to as we have been so busy. The owner has worked really hard for this restaurant and I'll share the post with her :) Thanks for sharing and hope to see you soon in our restaurant, God-willing

CK: ya, it's definitely more of a bangsar-budget place ... we had two appetisers and two cocktails and it was over RM150 ... though maybe we should have ordered two main courses instead of the cocktails :)

Purchases are separated into goods and services. Then there are goods that cost more because of the additional service going towards the final product. Let's take a look at four grocery delivery items that would fall into this category.